tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- The Marry Month Of May

SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Marry Month Of May Đây là một serries truyện ngắn anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY The Marry Month Of May PRITHEE smite the poet in the eye when he would sing to you praises of the month of May. It is a month presided over by the spirits of mischief and madness. Pixies and flibbertigibbets haunt the budding woods Puck and his train of midgets are busy in town and country. In May nature holds up at us a chiding finger bidding us remember that we are not gods but overconceited members of her own great family. She reminds us that we are brothers to the chowder-doomed clam and the donkey lineal scions of the pansy and the chimpanzee and but cousins-german to the cooing doves the quacking ducks and the housemaids and policemen in the parks. In May Cupid shoots blindfolded -- millionaires marry stenographers wise professors woo white-aproned gum-chewers behind quick-lunch counters schoolma ams make big bad boys remain after school lads with ladders steal lightly over lawns where Juliet waits in her trellissed window with her telescope packed young couples out for a walk come home married old chaps put on white spats and promenade near the Normal School even married men grown unwontedly tender and sentimental whack their spouses on the back and growl How goes it old girl This May who is no goddess but Circe masquerading at the dance given in honour of the fair débutante Summer puts the kibosh on us all. Old Mr. Coulson groaned a little and then sat up straight in his invalid s chair. He had the gout very bad in one foot a house near Gramercy Park half a million dollars and a daughter. And he had a housekeeper Mrs. Widdup. The fact and the name deserve a sentence each. They have it. When May poked Mr. Coulson he became elder brother to the turtle-dove. In the window near which he sat were boxes of jonquils of hyacinths geraniums and pansies. The breeze brought their odour into the room. Immediately there was a well-contested round between the breath of the flowers and the able and active effluvium from gout liniment. The liniment .